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The 2007 book Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West, by New Zealand Pacific scholar Ron Crocombe, considers the phrase Pacific Islands to politically encompass American Samoa, Australia, the Bonin Islands, the Cook Islands, Easter Island, East Timor, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, the Galápagos Islands, Guam, Hawaii, the Kermadec Islands, Kiribati, Lord Howe ...
Marginal seas. v. t. e. The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
New Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) [nb 2] is a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia, [5] and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.
An expandable bathymetric and topographic map of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides.Click to enlarge. New Caledonia is made up of a main island, the Grande Terre, and several smaller islands, the Belep archipelago to the north of the Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands to the east of the Grande Terre, the Isle of Pines to the south of the Grande Terre, the Chesterfield Islands ...
The Aleutian island arc formed in the Early Eocene (55–50 Ma) when the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the North American Plate began. The arc is made of separate blocks that have been rotated clockwise. The basement underlying the islands is made of three stratigraphic units: an Eocene layer of volcanic rock, an Oligocene – Miocene ...
In 1820, the islands were named the Gilbert Islands or îles Gilbert(in French) by Adam Johann von Krusenstern, a Baltic GermanAdmiral of the Russian Czarafter the British Captain Thomas Gilbert, who crossed the archipelago in 1788. French captain Louis Duperreywas the first to map the whole Gilbert Islands archipelago.
Calamian Islands (1 C, 11 P) Calbuco Archipelago (6 P) Campana Archipelago (2 P) Caroline Islands (7 C, 17 P) Channel Islands of California (4 C, 31 P) Chatham Islands (8 C, 14 P) Chiloé Archipelago (7 C, 36 P) Chonos Archipelago (9 P) Commander Islands (1 C, 12 P)
Wallis (island) / 13.300°S 176.200°W / -13.300; -176.200. Wallis ( Wallisian: ʻUvea) is a Polynesian atoll / island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity ( collectivité d'outre-mer, or COM) of Wallis and Futuna. It lies north of Tonga, northeast of Fiji, east-northeast of the Hoorn Islands, east of Fiji ...